DISCUSSION OF MATTER OF PUBLIC IMPORTANCE

The President informed the Senate that the Leader of the Opposition in the Senate (Senator Chaney) had proposed that a matter of public importance be submitted to the Senate for discussion, viz: ''The Government's election confidence trick in promising one thing and doing another and its sorry record of mismanagement and maladministration''.

And at least 4 Senators having risen in support of the proposed discussion- The President called upon Senator Chaney to speak.